Fiction - Noir

"A racy and hard-to-put-down piece of neo-noir."--Washington Post A modern-day noir featuring a twisty cat-and-mouse chase, this dark debut thriller tells the story of a woman who makes a living taking down terrible men...then finds herself in over her head and with blood on...

"Each voice is different, each story providing its own appeal, its own approach to the nature of crime, and in most instances, what it means to live in a female body in a largely hostile world." --Brooklyn RailJoyce Carol Oates, a queenpin of the...

"There's precious little comfort to be found in any of these Houston neighborhoods, most of which are set light-years away from the city's notoriously cushy new-money culture . . . Houston comes across as a haven of multiculturalism--though, as in all the 90-plus volumes...

When a notorious millionaire banker hangs himself, his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family. Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a...

She wants your life - and she'll do anything to get it...Erica has always wanted to be exactly like her neighbour, Faye: beautiful, thin, and a mother. But Faye's life isn't as perfect as it seems - she has a terrible secret, and slowly...

The discovery of the near-mythical night parrot lures smugglers to the heart of the Australian outback. It falls to lone wildlife officer Ric Butler to investigate but when a malevolent boss repeatedly undermines his efforts Butler proves he isn't the kind of guy to...

"Ant is borderline obsessed with funerals, likening the events to weddings as gatherings he looks forward to. Yet, when a childhood friend passes, Ant's veneer starts to crumble. Weirdly funny, Whiteout Conditions tracks Ant and his friend Vince as they make their way through...

A driven art critic's plan to steal a painting leads to murder in this classic neo-noir novel by the author of the Hoke Moseley series.Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anything--blackmail, burglary, and beyond--to make a name for...

"Atlanta has its share, maybe more than its share, of prosperity. But wealth is no safeguard against peril . . . Creepy as well as dark, grim in outlook . . . Hints of the supernatural may make these tales . . . appealing...

From Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Kem Nunn and "principal heir to the tradition of Raymond Chandler and Nathanael West" (The Washington Post)--an intense psychological suspense novel about a San Francisco neuropsychiatrist who becomes sexually involved with a woman suffering from multiple personality...

--Derrick Harriell has received the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for his story, There's a Riot Goin' On, presented by the Mystery Writers of America."Luxuriate in the seedy, wallow in the angry and shiver at the horrors that surely await you around the corner...

Detective Milo Dragovitch spends too much time boozing until he gets caught up in a case involving two-bit criminals and an old lady on the run. His friends call him Milo. No one has ever called him Bud except his father, long dead, and...

An impressive debut mystery novel from Edgar award nominated author Brian SilvermanLen Buonfiglio is a former New York bar owner and family man who has disappeared to a small island in the Caribbean. When a genial tour guide, Rawle "Big Tree" Johns is a...

Everyone in the village admires Anna because she's a wonderful mother. Juggling family life with a small sewing business, she's the one they turn to for a warm hug after a hard day. Her kind, polite daughters are a credit to her - even...

"My lungs began to burn as I started sprinting. It wasn't just that I wanted to catch Fritz. I had the distinct feeling that I was chasing him, that I had to catch up with him, before something caught up with me." How long...

Prudence Malkin is a reclusive accountant who leads a somewhat normal life in Portland, Maine where she immerses herself in her work. However, behind her placid and put-together front, she hides a dark and agonizing past. In spite of her efforts to suppress the...

Pierre Drieu la Rochelle's harrowing novel of modern decadence and despair, now available again in a new translation. A vitalist writer's portrait of modern existential malaise, exemplified in the life of a young drug addict, a man who can see through the emptiness of...

Jack Price and his Seven Demons, the most dangerous and feared assassins in the world, are taking on the bank heist of the century. Meet Jack Price and the Seven Demons: Doc, the evil mad scientist presently using Jack for sex; Rex, an explosives...

Second in the contemporary Italian crime fiction series featuring Inspector Lojacono by the bestselling author of the Commissario Ricciardi novels. A kidnapped child and the burglary of a high-class apartment: Two crimes that seem to have no connection at all until Inspector Lojacono, known...

First in English for Manchette, renovator of French noir; trenchant social critique laced with black humor.Author: Jean-Patrick ManchetteISBN-10: 0872863956ISBN-13: 9780872863958Publisher: City Lights BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2002Pages: 185Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 7.30h x 5.02w x 0.41dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2002 pg. 146Publishers Weekly 02/18/2002 pg. 79Booklist 03/15/2002...

"Racial, religious, and class divides are acutely observed in the 14 new stories from Kenyan writers . . . Crime fiction fans will find much to savor." --Publishers WeeklyAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir....

An NPR and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearA Library Journal Best Thriller of the Year "A gamechanger. Nick Mason is one of the best main characters I've read in years."--Harlan Coben From New York Times-bestselling, two-time Edgar-award-winning author Steve Hamilton comes an...

"My imagination is always skulking about in a wrong place." And now Doyle Redmond, thirty-five-year-old nowhere writer, has crossed the line between imagination and real live trouble. On the lam in his soon-to-be ex-wife's Volvo, he's running a family errand back in his boyhood...

Irresistibly blending suspense, mystery, compassion, raw instinct, and grim wit, Resolution provides a wrenching conclusion to Denise Mina's universally acclaimed Garnethill trilogy. Life has gotten no easier for Maureen O'Donnell since the events in Exile. Already deeply in debt and struggling with alchoholism, she...

The Magdalen Martyrs, the third Galway-set novel by Edgar, Barry, and Macavity finalist and Shamus Award-winner Ken Bruen, is a gripping, dazzling story that takes the Jack Taylor series to explosive new heights of suspense. Jack Taylor is walking the delicate edge of a...

Nineteen-year-old Cash Blackbear helps law enforcement solve the mysterious disappearance of a local girl from Minnesota's Red River Valley. 1970s, Fargo-Moorhead: it's the tail end of the age of peace and love, but Cash Blackbear isn't feeling it. Bored by her freshman classes at...

THE SOUTHLAND tells the story of three unauthorized Mexican immigrants living in Los Angeles: Luz works multiple jobs to provide for herself and her teenage son Eliseo. Nadia, a former journalist with PTSD, fled Mexico and tries to stay hidden from the dangerous men...

"The seven short stories in this impressive collection from Zeltserman (21 Tales) combine sharp-edged prose with grim twists" Publishers Weekly (starred review) A bartender once again dragged down by his brother. A street Santa on his last legs. Desperation in the old west. A...

A reluctant assassin is born. A con man tries to sell the Grand Central clock. A superhero is dying to lose her powers. In thirteen fast-moving stories, the author of Hipster Death Rattle explores the tragic world of noir fiction with a wide range...

A noir-inspred caper set in modern-day Milan. An incompetent thief makes another attempt at burglary. A hopeless bartender struggles to manage her last patron. The pair reluctantly work together to figure out why a man they presumed dead may have returned, while a lonely...

From the author of City of Fallen Angels comes the second entry in the PI John Keegan series Haunted by the events of his past, Private Investigator Jim Keegan reluctantly gets back to work and takes on a new client. Ida Fletcher is a...

Del Rio District Attorney Callie McCall is determined to solve the murder of a migrant teen, but what will she do when her search for the killer leads her straight to the most powerful family in town-her own?Author: Jane RosenthalISBN-10: 1647420555ISBN-13: 9781647420550Publisher: She Writes...

Daniel Bishop and Andre Gibson are best friends leading a life of crime in Las Vegas. After nearly a decade of robbing, gambling and hustling their way through the bowels of Sin City, they plan one final job to get out of the game...

Beneath the slick, glittering surface of L.A., an underworld of depravity and wickedness reins. Fritz Brown is a part-time private eye and full-time repo-man who gets his kicks listening to classical music. But the waters get too deep for Brown when he takes a...

'Stayed up late finishing this, just had to know what happened, brilliant final twist! Gripping page-turner with great characters' Sunday Times bestselling author B A ParisShe says she's innocent.DO YOU BELIEVE HER?2013Melissa Slade had it all: beauty, money, a successful husband and beautiful twin...

A hardboiled valentine to the Golden State, That Left Turn at Albuquerque marks the return of noir master Scott Phillips. Douglas Rigby, attorney-at-law, is bankrupt. He's just sunk his last $200,000--a clandestine "loan" from his last remaining client, former bigshot TV exec Glenn Haskill--into...

"Superb . . . Each story reaffirms how fundamental 'place' is to the noir genre and how the locale shapes the story as much as the characters themselves . . . Strongly recommended." --Library Journal"There's good writing as well as a strong sense of...

What if some secrets were never meant to stay buried?When a parish priest is brutally murdered in cold blood, a rural community is left in shock - and fear.New to the Vale of the White Horse, Detective Sergeant Mark Turpin discovers the murder bears...

Author of Jar City and HypothermiaAn Inspector Erlendur Novel Arnaldur Indri ason is universally recognized as one of the top Scandinavian crime novelists writing today, and in Outrage he is at the top of his form. Haunted by personal demons, Detective Erlendur decides to...

You have known me by many names, but the one that you would be most familiar with is Dracula. However, before that, I was known as Vlad, the Impaler. What you hold now in your hands is my story, the beginning of a tale...

Robert, an Oakland cop, still can't let go of Suzy, the mysterious Vietnamese wife who left him. Now she's disappeared from her new husband, Sonny, a violent smuggler who blackmails Robert into finding her. Searching for Suzy in the sleek and seamy gambling dens...

Kent Anderson's stunning debut novel is a modern classic, a harrowing, authentic picture of one American soldier's experience of the Vietnam War--"unlike anything else in war literature" (Los Angeles Review of Books).Hanson joins the Green Berets fresh out of college. Carrying a volume of...

"You already been a punk. Least you can do is go out like a man." Then a dull popping sound and a quiet splash.In his third appearance in George Pelecanos's acclaimed series, Nick Stefanos has been spending too much time with bad women and...

Silken skin pale against dark hair, red lips provocatively smiling at him--that's how Lieutenant Bret Taylor remembered Lorraine. He was drunk when he married her, stone cold sober when he found her dead. Out on the sunlit streets of L.A. walked the man--her lover,...

Just four words were printed in the card. He doesn't love you.I've been dreaming about this day - marrying Adam, my childhood sweetheart, who I've loved for eighteen years.I didn't realise the perfect day would turn into the perfect nightmare.I was so excited to...

Family secrets, terrorist plots and the return of a legendary cop: a ferociously paced noir thriller from one of Italy's top crime writers, and the second book in Pushkin Press's collaboration with Walter Presents Annibale Canessa didn't want to go back to his old...

"An exceptional treat for all dedicated fans of noir fiction." --Midwest Book ReviewAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each volume comprises stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.Featuring classic...

Destiny might be the end of you . . .Frank Morris was born in the desperation of a tenement in New York City's Little Italy. He is orphaned and adopted by the boss of a powerful NY crime family.As a veteran of the Korean...

Denver enters the Noir Series arena with a wide range of mile-high misgivings and perils."Denver has a dark side. And more than a dozen local authors are telling you all about it . . . Together, in Denver Noir, these authors pen a diverse...

In James Ellroy's riveting second novel, an ambitious beat cop is hot on the trail of a serial killer who frequents L.A. dive bars and preys on the fallen women he finds there. Los Angeles, 1951. For Officer Fred Underhill, the job is all...